Speaking in nostalgia, the demo of the new Contra game is out. It is kinda heavy to play it in Proton, since I was getting only 60% of the performance I have in Windows.

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Too bad 5.1 surround sound is broken on the Linux port of L4D2 since launch. It works well in other Valve games, tough.

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Congratulations on this milestone. While a good chunk of the code for OpenGL 4.6 already existed inside Mesa, I bet it was not easy to reverse engineer the hardware, to plug it in the Linux ecosystem.

It would be interesting to see if the Linux driver can outperform Apple's. That would be really funny if it did.

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So what is he upset about: that they milked the game by creating multiple DLCs, or that they decided to end development of the game?

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Last time I used this it wasn't playing nice with Vulkan and Wayland. How is it behaving now?

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Is there anything like this for the NES?

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Developers from this game were not happy during development. I remember a couple saying it was very difficult (a nice way to say their boss was a a****le) and the team disbanded after completion, hence why it never got a sequel despite being a well received title.

After reading about it, it became clear why the game lacked a bit of polish to make it a true AAA title. It was still worth playing, IMHO. Is the closest thing Linuxers got to Gears of War, but with a more realistic setting.

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I can enjoy a modern game that pays homage for ancient games from 20, 30 years ago. You feel nostalgic and stuff. Hollow Knight was released too recently for someone to be "paying homage" too it. This is a blatantly ripoff and one of the motives I abandoned AAA gaming in the first place. I came to indies for their courage to innovate. I'm not gonna give money to devs that behave like big studios that are too scared to create something new, and decide to copy someone's home work.

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Quoting: Geppeto35I miss some good shoot-them-up like stargunner or entertaining like Apidaya.

The Sky force's game are a nice go for shmup on linux and steam deck, and playing in coop locally with children or friends. I warmly recommend.

I do love Sky Force games. If the developer added the "Tate" view, they would be perfect.

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Mods like this let me to continue playing L4D2 for over 10 years. There are dozens of "AAA" maps done by the community, some of them even better than Valve's. All of that plus a regular crew, allowed me to achieve over 3,000 hours of L4D2 gameplay.

That and a lot of very crafty indie games, made me abandon the "AAA" life on PC and focus more on the fun part of a game, instead of being obsessed with graphics and the hardware needed to achieve it.

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